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Police Find Marijuana Grow Operation in Rescued Boy's Home
By News 13

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Police investigating the disappearance of Benjamin Lehr, a 3-year-old autistic boy from the Maine town of Vienna, say they found 147 marijuana plants being cultivated by the boy's father, 41-year-old Jonathan Lehr.

Benjamin Lehr was spotted in the woods outside his home late Sunday afternoon by a Maine Warden Service pilot after being missing for nearly three hours. He was dehydrated, but otherwise okay.

Jonathan Lehr is now facing charges of marijuana possession and endangering the welfare of a child. The Department of Health and Human Services is also investigating.

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Former Boston firefighter goes to prison on pot conviction
Associated Press

Berte also admitted smoking about 2 ounces of marijuana a week
during the eight years he was employed as a firefighter

PORTLAND, Maine - A former Boston firefighter has been sentenced to eight months in prison after admitting that he grew more than 100 pot plants that were seized from his Maine home in a federal drug raid.

U.S. Attorney Paula Silsby says 32-year-old Sean Berte also will face three years of supervised release once he's out of prison.

Federal drug agents raided Berte's Bridgton, Maine, home in May 2009 and seized 131 marijuana plants and cultivating equipment, worth an estimated $700,000.

Berte pleaded guilty in February to cultivating the plants. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Perry says Berte also admitted smoking about 2 ounces of marijuana a week during the eight years he was employed as a firefighter, but there's no evidence that he did so while on duty.

Berte resigned from the department following the raid.

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29 nonprofits applying to distribute medical marijuana
By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News

Mari-Med in Maine

AUGUSTA, Maine — Nearly 30 organizations hoping to be among the first wave of medical marijuana dispensaries in Maine filed applications with state regulators by Friday’s deadline.

On July 9, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services will award up to eight permits to nonprofit organizations that have applied to open facilities where qualified patients or their caregivers can purchase medical marijuana.

Voters expanded Maine’s 10-year-old medical marijuana law and approved the creation of dispensaries in a November 2009 referendum.

Twenty-nine applicants will compete for the permits with one dispensary being selected in each of Maine’s eight public health districts. The deadline to submit a completed application and pay the $15,000 fee was 2 p.m. Friday.

"This is right around what I had thought; I expected 25 to 30 applications," said Cathy Cobb, director of DHHS’ Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services.

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